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Gavin Brown will have welcomed the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth’s undertaking that such targets will apply to payments for Government contracts, and not just to the main contractor but to subcontractors from the small business sector.
As I said, members are free to lodge amendments on specific areas if they are not happy with the way the Government has responded.Does Gavin Brown want to comment? Yes. We raised a couple of issues last time.
It is important that the details as well as the principle are right. What Robert Brown said has much merit. It is clear that any Administration will use the emergency legislation procedure only sparingly.
We acknowledge a lot of the points that Robert Brown has made. Following the provisional conclusions of the BBC Trust, I encourage members to keep up the campaign that has been started, if they feel strongly about it.
There are cuts throughout the country and not just in Glasgow, and it is unreasonable to state otherwise. I do not accept Robert Brown’s proposal that we could bring the regulations back within a few days with the Glasgow situation omitted.
Earlier this week we found out through a freedom of information request that Mr Brown had “little awareness” of the role of Highlands and Islands Enterprise—two months after he had set up a review on HIE.